Police officer Darrell Lunsford from Garrison, Texas, is killed but his murder
is caught on the video camera in his police car. This is the first time such evidence
was used to successfully convict such a crime and since then it has been widely
used.

It
was on this day...

1992
Hal Roach is awarded a medal by the Smithsonian
Institute

The Smithsonian Institution awards producer, director, and screenwriter Hal Roach
its highest honor, the James Smithson Medal. The medal was awarded about a week
after Roach's 100th birthday and only 10 months before his death.

Roach
was a major figure in the early years of silent comedy. He hired Harold Lloyd,
Will Rogers, Edgar Kennedy, Laurel and Hardy, Jean Harlow, Mickey Rooney, Charlie
Chase, and Zasu Pitts.

Roach
won Oscars for two shorts, The Music Box in 1932 and Bored of Education in 1936.
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